related works
Dark City : version for piano quintet and violoncello solo / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
str pf vcl solo
Stanzas of Charles II : voice and small orchestra, 1966 / Alexander Voormolen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar 1200 0000 cel str
Plegaria : for mezzo-soprano and orchestra / Oswin 'Chin' Behilia; arr. by Randal Corsen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
3fl 3ob 3cl 3bsn 4h 3trb tb timp perc(3) hrp pf voice str
Oratio : voor hoge stem en orkest / Anthon van der Horst
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
high 2333 3330 timp perc hp str
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Author(s):
Knehans, Katarina
(Text writer/Librettist)
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans